From the Registrar: March 23, 2022

Hello Gardeners,  

Opening day reminder: Opening day at the gardens will be this Saturday, March 26th. Orientations will be held this weekend as well. 

Plot markers and corner posts: Please don’t move your numbered plot marker or the corner posts of your plot. If you need stakes to hold up a fence or a plant, please don’t use the markers or posts. The markers are not just important for the gardeners of the plots. They also help new gardeners find their way around the gardens, and they help the garden juries correctly identify plots. The corner posts also help you and your neighbors find the borders of the plots.  

Reminder about plot borders: We notified gardeners last Fall that this season any plants, fences, or structures that go past the front borders of the plots into the paths will need to be moved. The front borders of your plot are marked by two corner posts. If your plot is located along a retaining wall, the border is inside the wall, so no fences or plants can go on top of or past the wall.  

Plants and fences can extend to the border only in the front of the plot. On all other sides there must be six inches of space left as a path (so there are 12 inches between all plots). 

Birdhouses: Due to problems with invasive House Sparrows, only wren houses are allowed in the gardens. If you’d like to have a birdhouse, there will be copper plates the correct size for wren house entrances available at the Seed Fair.  

Plant sales: Scott Williams, from Garden to Be, will be holding plant sales again at Eagle Heights this year. There will be a cool weather plant sale on Sunday April 24th from 10 AM-1 pm and a warm weather plant sale on Sunday May 22nd from 10 AM-1 pm. 

Scott will be bringing some people along to help with the sale, but he would also like two volunteers for each day. For the April sale, the volunteers need to arrive a little before 10 AM. For the May sale the volunteers will need to be there at 9 AM. Please let me know if you’d like to help with either plant sale. It will count as a workday, and I will give the spots out to gardeners in the order I receive replies. I’ll send a reminder before each sale, along with any details I get about prices and what plants will be available. 

Thanks, and happy gardening, 

Lily